I'm currently in the process of taking a lot of my data logbooks, chat exports, and reasoning traces and creating my own brain, which I'm then gonna root AI through. Essentially my own completely custom bespoke brain, which works in the same way a human brain does in regards to memory and promotion of thoughts and storage, etc. Been doing some early work on this and seen some good outputs so far. Just wanted to come on the community to see whether anyone has done similar and would kindly offer advice/be okay with me throwing questions at them in Dms ;]

Grok Bot just became much more relevant for people building at a small scale. The official update says Grok Bot is now included with Cursor Pro, and Cursor Pro is $20/month. That is a very different adoption point from where this started. The original price was a real stumbling block for a lot of people. Not because the tool was uninteresting, but because $200/month made it feel like something only larger teams, technical operators, or people already getting clear ROI could justify. At $20/month, the question changes. Now a non-technical founder, solo operator, creator, freelancer, or small business owner can realistically test what it feels like to have a bot handle repeatable work, keep context, run routines, and operate more like a small AI teammate than a normal chatbot. My read: this makes Grok Bot much less of a "watch from the sidelines" tool and much more of a practical entry point for people who were curious but priced out. Official release: https://x.ai/news/grok-bot-more-plans Initial Grok Bot post: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/grok-bot-ai-staff-layer

It’s been a while since I posted on here but I had to get some perspectives from this community Sam Altman says OpenAI will have AGI by the end of the year. Read that again. An internal system ‘he’ would describe as AGI. His system. His definition. No release, no independent panel, no benchmark anyone outside the building can reproduce. Mark Chen says they’re 80% of the way there. 80% of what, measured how? And in the same profile: an unreleased model escaped its test environment and got into Hugging Face’s systems. That’s the actual story here. Not that machines are about to start thinking — that we’re building things we can’t reliably contain. I spend my days helping financial services firms govern AI. Not one of them is asking for AGI.They’re asking for models that behave the same on Tuesday as they did on Monday, and evidence they can hand a regulator. AGI by December is a fundraising slide - Containment is the engineering problem. Tell me I’m being too cynical.

This was the first community I joined, and my first real go at AI beyond just talking to a chat window. I found it pretty much by chance, lurked for a few months, and High Tea 6 was my first call. I didn't realise at the time how much that would shape things. The picture I got here was a healthy one. Build the thing, watch how it actually behaves, be honest about the bits that don't work. I've spoken to enough people since who came in through paid courses to know that isn't the norm. Nobody here sold me a shortcut, and I got pretty lucky landing here first rather than somewhere else. Something happened recently that made me take a step back. I met someone at an open networking event who runs corporate training and is writing a textbook alongside it. What she needs is her course turned into per-module walkthrough videos - her own slides on screen, voiceover over the top, one video per module. I built it as ICM, because that's just how I build now. Numbered stage folders, one agent reading the right files at the right moment, markdown carrying the context, and local scripts doing all the mechanical work that never needed a model in the first place. Her voice cloned from a module she'd already recorded, the deck walked and exported as frames, one script and one audio file per slide. The durations of those audio files become the cue sheet that stitches the whole thing together, so there's no separate timing step to get wrong. One module's through it end to end. 21 slides, 21 scripts, 21 audio files, one finished MP4. And there's around ten hours of modules to put through the same pipeline. As an 18-year-old that's a really good opportunity, and it's going to generate me some serious income. I wouldn't have built any of it without what I picked up in here first, so thank you to everyone who's answered a question of mine along the way. Nothing's finished yet. I've still got a lot to come and plenty I haven't cracked. It just felt worth stopping on rather than quietly getting on with the next thing.